Vegetable Static fo. 3 5 



€i ed upon it, and was wrought at the fame 

 " time 5 but if in either of thefe cafes there 

 " was a difference, it had a different effed 5 

 " and the low and gentle grounds, that lay 

 " negleded, were then feen lefs diftemper- 

 " ed, than the open and moift, that were 

 i€ carefully managed and looked after. 



" The honey dews are obferved to come 

 " about the 1 1 of June, which by the middle 

 cc of July turn the leaves black, and make 

 " them ftinko 



I have in July (the feafon for fire Wafts* 

 as the planters call them) feen the vines in 

 the middle of a hop - ground all fcorchtd 

 up almoft from one end of a large ground 

 to the other, when a hot gleam of Sun- 

 fhine has come immediately after a fhower 

 of rain ,• at which time the vapors are of- 

 ten feen with the naked eye, but efpecially 

 with refleding Telefcopes, to afctnd fo 

 plentifully, as to make a clear and diftind 

 objed become immediately very dim and 

 tremulous. Nor was there any dry gravel- 

 ly vein in the ground, along the courfe cf 

 this fcorch. It was therefore probably ow, 

 ing to the much greater quantity of fcorch^ 

 ing vapors, in the middle than outfides of 

 D 2 the 



